An Introduction to Entity Recommendation and Understanding

Hao Ma, Yan Ke
2015 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web - WWW '15 Companion  
Entities and the Knowledge about the entities have become indispensable building blocks in modern search engines. This tutorial aims to present the current state of research in the emerging semantic search and recommendation field by studying how to help users effectively explore the knowledge base as well as answer their information needs. Many live applications and systems will be demonstrated throughout this tutorial. After the completion of the tutorial, the audience will have an
more » ... n and overview of what is the emerging topics of entity recommendation and understanding. The audience will learn and be able to understand some current research work as well as industry practices using computational intelligence techniques in entity recommendation and understanding. One of the major goals of this tutorial is to help audience identify a few research directions that could have big impact in the near future.
doi:10.1145/2740908.2741991 dblp:conf/www/MaK15 fatcat:njaxsona6rgdtjvq7ewmzbsobe